Monday, March 30, 2009

My younger DD on a field trip during her nursery year at Nanyang Kindergarten. I love this shot of her sitting with her classmate by the beach, waiting for the excursion bus to come fetch them back to school. And the title just somehow came to mind when I look at the photo!

I mixed papers from K & Co's Hopscotch range and Sassafras Lass' Life Is Beautiful - Vintage Yummy range, as I thought they were very appropriate for the title and theme of the layout.

I used 3D pop-up dots on some of the cut-outs for a little bit of dimension, and also applied stickles to the cut-outs, for some texture. I chose to use Antique Linen for the stickles to enhance the "vintagey" look of the layout.

There is hidden journaling behind the photo. The journal tag is attached with a piece of lace which can be used to pull the tag out. The tag is actually made from a S.E.I. sticker which I pasted onto a transparency and cut out.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Something I've been wanting to do for a long time - scrap our wedding photo!

I decided to go for a black and white look against a red background, and found just the perfect papers in GCD Studios' Cosette Collection with their romantic, lacey designs. I then added even more lace to the layout, and some pearls to complete the picture.

I also applied stickles to the patterned paper cut-outs and flowers for some added glitter and sparkle.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

This photo is of my younger DD taken during Chinese New Year this year.

I used GCD Studios' Scent of Christmas papers for this layout, and even though the papers are from their Christmas collection, I think they work equally well for a "Spring" layout such as this! I just love the green and red colours, which I thought match my daughter's outfit and the greenery behind her, nicely.

Yay! I made it to the very first DT of 52 Sketches ... 52 Weeks! I received the good news from Julie yesterday but had to wait until the announcement was made on their site first. This is so exciting - I can't wait to start! It's a really awesome site - go check it out!

Sunday, March 15, 2009

My DT layout for Butterfly Crafts. This week's challenge is to create a layout about Luck. Whether it be a lucky charm you have, an occasion where you have had good luck or when you have had bad luck.

I decided to do a layout on one of my two Lucky Stars (my two DDs of course) - my older girl who turns 12 next month. There is hidden journaling behind the photo, where I've written her a personal message.

Don't forget to check out this challenge over at Butterfly Crafts because there are two prizes to be won this month, one of which is a DT position!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Here's a little sneak peek of my new DT layout for Butterfly Crafts, which will be revealed on 15 March on their blog.

Incidentally, the March Winner of the Butterfly Crafts challenges will be offered a 3 month DT position (Apr - Jun 09), and the March Runner-up (picked at random) will be offered the April GD spot. So do give the challenges a shot! Would love to see what everyone comes up with!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

This layout uses papers from Cosmo Cricket's Ever After collection, and the title of the layout is a play on the collection's name. :) The photo is of my two DD standing in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle at Disney Hongkong, hence also the title!

I cut out the flowers from the Something New paper and used them as embellishments.

I also cut out the floral shapes from the Something True paper and used it as a lace-like border on the right of the layout.

I then applied two different types of Stickles to the flowers on these papers, for some added glitter.